[alzoid]

No, when I read the article 'hard' seemed to equate to 'took longer than expected'. It takes time, but I think the tools that are out there are easy enough to use.

If you wrote the software you already have a good idea on how it should be tested so it's just learning how to use the tool.

The fun part is the part I said was hard, which is investigating / interpreting the results. One other thing, which you don't have to do, were setting up and coordinating multiple servers to launch the tests and automating the data processing and report generation.

I didn't say that its easy because its fun. I said load testing isn't hard - it just a lot of work. Maybe being having to do a lot of work is hard.